2. Open the iso with 7zip (or any other program that can look into ISO's)

3. From the folder "sources" copy everything except the subfolders and the 2 biggest files (you can copy them ofcourse, but it will take less time if you skip them) to a folder on your PC. I put everything in C:\w10install . I am not sure which files are actually needed but just copying dism.exe and some dll's didnt work. So thats why I copied the whole directory.Note: Apparently MS has put a new ISO (Build 10130) on their site that does not contain a required file called "FfuProvider.dll". If you get "Error: 0x80004005 Unspecified error", you need to do this extra step. Please see this post : viewtopic.php?p=770733#p770733 from MBRO95

6. Then type: dism.exe /Apply-Image /ImageFile:flash.ffu /ApplyDrive:\\.\PhysicalDriveN /SkipPlatformCheck
Where the N in PhysicalDriveN is the drive number from the previous step.Note: Flash.ffu might be with upercase F, so make sure you check. Please make sure that you use the exact name of flash.ffu as it appears on your disk.Note 2: Also make sure you are using the right dism.exe, so the one you just extracted from the iso file. See this tip:

GerritV wrote:If you are in the directory where the presumably correct dism is located, add .\ in front of the command to be certain that you are executing the one in that directory and not from the Path setting.

The image will now be written to the SD card

Thats it, now put the SD card in the Pi 2 and wait a while, it will boot up to Windows 10 IoT. The first boot will take quite some time, so have a bit of patience

Last edited by John_ on Fri Jun 19, 2015 8:29 am, edited 16 times in total.

Nice of you to figure out what exactly was needed . I just took the easy route as it only took a few seconds to copy all the files from that folder (except the 2 big files). But good to know exactly what we need now to use DISM.exe on a W7 machine. Perhaps MS will create an install file for the next release. But better would be of course if MS just creates an image like any other PI installation.

Could someone tell me, why it is not working for me? The applying of the image to the sd card completes successfully, but the windows IoT do not boot up. I have tried sdhc 8gb class 10 and 4 with no success

Arron wrote:Thanks for your sharing!
BTW, I have two questions:
1. Is it possible using Win7 to run PowerShell to connect to Pi2?
2. Is it possible using Win7 and VS2015 to deploy project to Pi2?

In fact, It's not convenient for me to using Win10 to do all things. Hope someone can give me any suggestions to do these on Win7 computer.
Any advise is appreciate.

I tried powershell to remotely connect to the Pi2, but the whole remote thing for Win 10 IoT is just to complicated (MS has some work ahead to make installation and remote access easier). My main goal was to see if I could get it installed on W7, I am yet to to work with the setup a bit more.

barakt wrote:Could someone tell me, why it is not working for me? The applying of the image to the sd card completes successfully, but the windows IoT do not boot up. I have tried sdhc 8gb class 10 and 4 with no success

Did you give it enough time to boot? At first boot I had the impression that the boot got stuck, but in the end it did just boot. Win10 does not show all the boot details as we are used to with the Linux images on the PI. You will be staring at still standing logo's for some time before something happens.

At very first time I was able to write image using dism command and Windows 10 IoT ran just fine. However I changed some hardware (monitor, keyboard, mouse) later and then it stopped booting. Now I am trying to re-write Windows 10 IoT image on the same 16 GB SD card and getting below error -
(Microsoft says that Windows 10 build 10069 or higher is required, and I have 10074).

John_ wrote:
I tried powershell to remotely connect to the Pi2, but the whole remote thing for Win 10 IoT is just to complicated (MS has some work ahead to make installation and remote access easier). My main goal was to see if I could get it installed on W7, I am yet to to work with the setup a bit more.

Your joking, right? How is 3-4 steps (3 of which are done only once) too complicated? Different commands from Linux for sure but not complex. You could even write a short ps script to do the commands for you.

vaibhav_gawali wrote:At very first time I was able to write image using dism command and Windows 10 IoT ran just fine. However I changed some hardware (monitor, keyboard, mouse) later and then it stopped booting. Now I am trying to re-write Windows 10 IoT image on the same 16 GB SD card and getting below error -
(Microsoft says that Windows 10 build 10069 or higher is required, and I have 10074).

John_ wrote:
Did you give it enough time to boot? At first boot I had the impression that the boot got stuck, but in the end it did just boot. Win10 does not show all the boot details as we are used to with the Linux images on the PI. You will be staring at still standing logo's for some time before something happens.

Maybe I did not, but I was assuming, that when the ACT led stopped blinking, that it wasn't doing anything more. I didn't even see the logo while booting, so for sure something was wrong. I am trying to format the card and try it once more.

GerritV wrote:
Your joking, right? How is 3-4 steps (3 of which are done only once) too complicated? Different commands from Linux for sure but not complex. You could even write a short ps script to do the commands for you.

vaibhav_gawali wrote:At very first time I was able to write image using dism command and Windows 10 IoT ran just fine. However I changed some hardware (monitor, keyboard, mouse) later and then it stopped booting. Now I am trying to re-write Windows 10 IoT image on the same 16 GB SD card and getting below error -
(Microsoft says that Windows 10 build 10069 or higher is required, and I have 10074).

Can someone help me to solve the issue of my Raspberry PI 2 not booting up after copying the image file as instructed, inserted it on the Raspberry board I got a coloured display screen hanging forever , I have used 8GB, 16GB SD card class 10 and the current one I am using is 16GB scandisk class 10, but the situation remain the same, what I am doing wrong, I thing I followed the instruction correctly.

A SanDisk 16Gb class 10 or better SD card should be fine.
Try the following:
Write a Raspbian image to the card and make sure the Pi will actually boot. If not then you may have a bad Pi or a bad SD card writer. Switch each one out if you have the option to do so and try to narrow down what is causing the failure. Do you know someone with a Win10 IoT image that will boot a Pi? Could you try that image?

vaibhav_gawali wrote:At very first time I was able to write image using dism command and Windows 10 IoT ran just fine. However I changed some hardware (monitor, keyboard, mouse) later and then it stopped booting. Now I am trying to re-write Windows 10 IoT image on the same 16 GB SD card and getting below error -
(Microsoft says that Windows 10 build 10069 or higher is required, and I have 10074).

The first time I've put the iot image in my sd card without trouble. but when I tryed for the second time the DISM command did not recognise the ApplyDrive extention. It did turn out I was using the older version of the DISM command. the windows 10 version is 10.0.10074.0 . In order to use the right version set the env variable to the right directory where the windows 10 version is located.
I used the command $env:path="C:/w10" (C:\W10 is the map I've put the w10 files and the flash.ffu file )
and then used dism.exe /ImageFile:flash.ffu /ApplyDrive:\\.\PhysicalDrive3 /SkipPlatformCheck

Can someone help me to solve the issue of my Raspberry PI 2 not booting up after copying the image file as instructed, inserted it on the Raspberry board I got a coloured display screen hanging forever , I have used 8GB, 16GB SD card class 10 and the current one I am using is 16GB scandisk class 10, but the situation remain the same, what I am doing wrong, I thing I followed the instruction correctly.

I read here that some guys were able to boot Windows 10 IoT with RP2.
I downloaded and installed Windows 10 ADK, where I got my dism.exe. My host machine is a Windows 7 vmware virtual machine.
I passed my SD-card reader/writer to my VM so I was able to write the image with dism.